Between 1851 and 1910, approximately 1.6 million Swedish people – 86% of whom were under 35 y/o, left the fatherland to establish themselves in the United States. Swedes established the Swedish Lutheran Mission Institute in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1873. A banker in Knoxville (near Galesburg, IL) persuaded the Institute to relocate and it was renamed …
What follows are image scans of a pamphlet printed by the North Park College News in 1926. I found it this week among my stuff in Portland. I don’t know why I have it, or why this document, amongst all the David Nyvall/North Park/Mission Friend/Covenant materials in my parents’ home which could have survived, this …